The Ecological Impact on Bonding and Religious Identity: A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in Two Sociocultural Contexts in the United States = $Lchi环境因素对建立关系和宗教身份的影响 : 中国研究生在美国两个社会文化环境中的个案分析
Linking concepts from networks, identities, and ecology, I draw on material collected during sixty interviews to show how a group of culturally homogeneous Chinese graduate students, when placed in two sociocultural environments in the United States, displayed different processes of religious identi...
| Subtitles: | $Lchi环境因素对建立关系和宗教身份的影响 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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| In: |
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-58 |
| Further subjects: | B
Community size
B Social Network B 社会网络 B 文化 B 宗教身份 B Religious Identity B 环境因素 B ecological perspective B Culture B 社区规模 |
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| Summary: | Linking concepts from networks, identities, and ecology, I draw on material collected during sixty interviews to show how a group of culturally homogeneous Chinese graduate students, when placed in two sociocultural environments in the United States, displayed different processes of religious identity network formation. In a large and heterogeneous community with more possible identities, students showed human agency by forming religious identities less constrained by networks. Human agency is also exemplified in the expansion of their religious circle of friends once they developed a religious identity. Religious identity often preceded networks. However, in a small and homogeneous community, students did emotion work to stay in pro-religious groups, presumably due to the limitations they had in choosing friends, particularly Chinese friends. The formation of networks more likely preceded the emergence of religious identities premised on the coexistence of multiple relationships in dyads and solidarity within primary groups. The narratives demonstrate how ecology matters for the formation of network ties and religious identity. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-3955 |
| Contains: | In: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00401003 |